author-hollesDenzilHollesBaron-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

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Size

There are 25 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 297,244 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 11,889 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 89. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

parliament, king, one, house, lords, will, shall, made, may, bishops, law, time, sir, first, mr, great, now, de, make, commons, men, must, yet, say, two, done, might, army, present, good, peers, barons, much, lord, man, well, text, many, case, us, give, thing, right, therefore, general, kingdom, part, power, without, put

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Lord Hollis, his remains being a second letter to a friend, concerning the judicature of the bishops in Parliament, in the vindication of what he wrote in his first : and in answer to ... The rights of the bishops to judge in capital cases in Parliament, cleared, &c. : it contains likewise part of his intended answer to a second tractate, entituled, The grand question touching the bishops right to vote in Parliament, stated and argued : to which are added Considerations, in answer to the learned author of The grand question, &c., by another hand : and reflections upon some passages in Mr. Hunt''s Argument upon that subject, &c., by a third., Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the year 1641 to 1648, and A letter of a gentleman to his friend, shewing that the bishops are not to be judges in Parliament in cases capital.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

english books, early english, books online, sir thomas, sir william, denzil holles, page images, third estate, lords temporal, lords spiritual, lord holles, creation partnership, temporal lords, text creation, thomas fairfax, curia regis, every one, sir robert, high treason, general council, common law, kings bench, de la, three estates, lord chief, magna charta, eleven members, sir philip, textual changes, sine die, let us, sir iohn, tells us, master speaker, solomon grace, capital cases, sir john, providing financial, encoded text, work described, iv tiff, image set, without asking, proquest page, may say, markup reviewed, tiff page, online text, batch review, xml conversion

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen (charged with a robbery of which they are most innocent) and the proceedings upon it, with their tryal and acquittance in the Court of Kings Bench in Easter term last published by Denzell Lord Holles. A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen (charged with a robbery, of which they were most innocent) and the proceedings upon it, with their tryal and acquittance in the Court of Kings Bench, in Easter term last published by Denzell Lord Holles, partly for a further manifestation of their innocency, (of which, as he is informed, many do yet doubt) and partly for his own vindication, in regard of some passages at that tryal, which seemed very strongly to reflect upon him., and Observations on the letter written to Sir Thomas Osborn, upon the reading of a book called The present interest of England stated written in a letter to a friend..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

lords, house, parliament, lord, king, commons, tcp, law, sir, peers, act, val, speaker, robbery, people, letter, laws, kingdome, kingdom, justice, judgment, government, general, england, court, clergy, chief, butchers, bishops, word, trade, tenants, statutes, statute, soldiers, scots, religion, record, realm, prelates, power, party, parlament, order, officers, minister, men, members, master, majesty

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be parliament, and Observations on the letter written to Sir Thomas Osborn, upon the reading of a book called The present interest of England stated written in a letter to a friend. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

1. parliament - Lord Hollis, his remains being a second letter to a friend, concerning the judicature of the bishops in Parliament, in the vindication of what he wrote in his first : and in answer to ... The rights of the bishops to judge in capital cases in Parliament, cleared, &c. : it contains likewise part of his intended answer to a second tractate, entituled, The grand question touching the bishops right to vote in Parliament, stated and argued : to which are added Considerations, in answer to the learned author of The grand question, &c., by another hand : and reflections upon some passages in Mr. Hunt''s Argument upon that subject, &c., by a third.
2. parliament - The case stated concerning the judicature of the House of Peers in the point of appeals
3. england - Observations on the letter written to Sir Thomas Osborn, upon the reading of a book called The present interest of England stated written in a letter to a friend.

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

1. parliament, king, bishops - Lord Hollis, his remains being a second letter to a friend, concerning the judicature of the bishops in Parliament, in the vindication of what he wrote in his first : and in answer to ... The rights of the bishops to judge in capital cases in Parliament, cleared, &c. : it contains likewise part of his intended answer to a second tractate, entituled, The grand question touching the bishops right to vote in Parliament, stated and argued : to which are added Considerations, in answer to the learned author of The grand question, &c., by another hand : and reflections upon some passages in Mr. Hunt''s Argument upon that subject, &c., by a third.
2. parliament, army, house - Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the year 1641 to 1648
3. said, justice, did - A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen (charged with a robbery, of which they were most innocent) and the proceedings upon it, with their tryal and acquittance in the Court of Kings Bench, in Easter term last published by Denzell Lord Holles, partly for a further manifestation of their innocency, (of which, as he is informed, many do yet doubt) and partly for his own vindication, in regard of some passages at that tryal, which seemed very strongly to reflect upon him.
4. england, french, government - Observations on the letter written to Sir Thomas Osborn, upon the reading of a book called The present interest of England stated written in a letter to a friend.
5. advanced, io, slain - The speech of Denzill Hollis, Esquire at a conference with the Lords on Tuesday the third of August, 1641 : in justification of the three last printed votes by the House of Commons.

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

time, thing, p., man, part, men, way, text, day, others, words, things, author, reason, power, nothing, kings, times, king, members, self, end, truth, people, matter, right, place, t, cases, order, blood, question, persons, case, body, charge, bishops, hath, business, rest, year, barons, person, none, opinion, page, ad, hand, art, name

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

be, was, is, have, were, had, are, been, said, made, being, did, do, make, say, done, give, put, given, come, see, take, came, think, taken, sent, concerning, brought, having, according, know, let, called, go, set, sit, thought, went, am, held, find, gave, believe, seems, has, making, left, saith, found, committed

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

parliament, king, house, lords, sir, mr., law, bishops, commons, army, lord, peers, c., kingdom, england, de, justice, court, barons, case, tcp, william, h., earl, london, holles, god, act, men, clergy, chief, council, church, thomas, laws, english, government, temporal, record, earls, hath, e., john, judges, du, judgment, regis, prelates, general, henry

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, they, their, he, his, i, them, him, our, my, you, we, me, themselves, us, himself, your, her, she, its, theirs, one, thy, ''em, ours, thee, ian, whereof, em, us''d, severall, mine, itself, herself, yours, toutz, subdu''d, quae, par, ourselves, ihey, ia, hitherto, au, ''s

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, great, same, present, many, good, more, first, own, whole, true, much, general, several, particular, little, early, last, second, common, least, english, third, next, greater, full, new, contrary, certain, guilty, clear, very, sure, free, former, ancient, old, high, most, due, like, right, fit, better, french, large, different, available, lawful

not, so, then, now, only, as, there, well, very, therefore, more, here, never, out, up, before, first, much, even, yet, ever, also, still, together, in, away, all, again, most, rather, down, afterwards, sometimes, far, likewise, indeed, otherwise, at, always, certainly, on, further, no, over, off, else, once, that, often, particularly

Next steps

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